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Itô's Theory of Excursion Point Processes and Its Developments View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector Stochastic Processes and their Applications 120 (2010) 653–677 www.elsevier.com/locate/spa Ito’sˆ theory of excursion point processes and its developments Shinzo Watanabe 527-10, Chayacho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, 605-0931, Japan Received 3 September 2009; accepted 25 September 2009 Available online 6 February 2010 Abstract Ito’sˆ theory of excursion point processes is reviewed and the following topics are discussed: Application of the theory to one-dimensional diffusion processes on half-intervals satisfying Feller’s boundary conditions, and its multi-dimensional extension, i.e., the application of the theory to multi-dimensional diffusion processes satisfying Wentzell’s boundary conditions. c 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. MSC: 60J60; 60G55; 60J50; 60J65 Keywords: Poisson point processes; Excursion point processes; Feller’s boundary conditions; Wentzell’s boundary conditions 1. Introduction In this paper, dedicated to the memory of Professor Kiyosi Ito,ˆ we shall review Ito’sˆ theory of excursion point processes and some of its further developments. As Itoˆ himself remembered in the Foreword of [13], this theory is a natural outgrowth of his joint work with Henry McKean [14,15] on one-dimensional diffusion processes: in order to understand better the class of diffusion processes on a linear interval satisfying Feller’s boundary conditions, Itoˆ introduced in [11,12] the notion of excursion point processes, which are point processes with values in a function space (i.e. path space). On the other hand, we know well that the notion of Poisson point processes has been introduced and it has played a key role in Levy–It´ oˆ theory on the structure of sample paths of Levy´ processes [8,10]. This class of Poisson point processes has been defined by the size of E-mail address: watanabe@math.kyoto-u.ac.jp. 0304-4149/$ - see front matter c 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.spa.2010.01.012 654 S. Watanabe / Stochastic Processes and their Applications 120 (2010) 653–677 jumps of path functions, and so point processes take their values in a finite dimensional Euclidean space. However, the notion of point processes is defined generally with state spaces which can be rather arbitrary. Ito’sˆ idea in [11,12] is that, for a strong Markov process, the totality of excursions away from a recurrent state can be formulated as a stationary Poisson point process with values in a function space. This is indeed a breakthrough in the study of boundary problems for diffusion processes. We quote here a recollection of Ito’sˆ given in the Foreword of [13] in his study of the description of all possible extensions of a minimal diffusion up to the hitting time of the boundary point: After several years it became my habit to observe even finite dimensional facts from the infinite dimensional viewpoint. This habit led me to reduce the problem above to a Poisson point process with values in the space of excursions. A most typical and important example is the case of the Poisson point process of Brownian excursions which is treated, e.g., in Chap. III, Subsection 4.3 of [7], Chap. 6 of [17], Chap. VI, Section 8 of [21], Chap. XII of [20]. The Poisson point process of Brownian excursions is a correct and precise mathematical realization of the decomposition of Brownian sample functions into pieces called excursions. Once this is correctly formulated, not only Brownian sample functions but also their functionals, like local times, the maximum process, down-crossing numbers, occupation times, etc., can be recovered and represented in terms of the point process of Brownian excursions. Many facts concerning these functionals and their limit theorems can be deduced from such representations. Even if the facts considered thereby may not be new, this approach can often provide us with a deeper and better understanding of such facts and can produce sometimes a remarkable progress of the theory. Some such examples are the Williams formula for the occupation times on the positive half-line of Brownian paths which proves the arcsine law without appealing to the Feynman–Kac theorem, Levy’s´ down-crossing theorem, asymptotic laws of planar Brownian motion due to Pitman and Yor, among many others. As was stated above, the motivation of Itoˆ in the study of point processes with values in a function space originated from the joint work with McKean on analyzing and constructing path functions of linear diffusions satisfying the most general Feller boundary conditions. I could never forget those hot days in the summer of 1969, when Professor Itoˆ returned to his home in Kyoto, on vacation from his regular work at Aarhus, and gave us a series of lectures on excursion point processes (which was a source of [11]). I remember that he told us then that his theory was motivated by a question raised by Lamperti, “What are all possible boundary conditions at an exit boundary of a linear diffusion, typically the case of the boundary 0 of Feller’s diffusion 2 on T0; 1/ with the generator x d , which is a typical scaling limit of critical Galton–Watson dx2 branching processes?” We shall review this topic in Section 3. A main objective of the present paper is to extend Ito’sˆ idea to the same problem in multi- dimensional cases, in particular, to the problem of constructing and analyzing multi-dimensional diffusion processes in a domain with the boundary satisfying the most general Wentzell boundary conditions. This was a problem which, after the success of the Ito–McKeanˆ theory, was attacked by many people by various approaches. In Section 4, we shall show that Ito’sˆ approach by Poisson point processes of excursions can still be applied well to this problem. We shall discuss the problem in Section 4, going from a simpler case to more general cases. As we see there, the problem can be solved by determining and constructing two stochastic processes. The first one, denoted by (ξ.t//, is a process moving on the boundary. The second one, denoted by .A.t//, is an increasing process. A simple case of the problem is when the generator, which describes the behavior of the diffusion inside the domain before hitting the boundary, and the boundary condition, which S. Watanabe / Stochastic Processes and their Applications 120 (2010) 653–677 655 describes the behavior of the diffusion on the boundary, are both of constant coefficients. In this case, both processes (ξ.t// and .A.t// are Levy´ processes and they can be given directly by non- canonical representations of Levy–It´ oˆ type, as in Example 2.1 of Section 2, from two Poisson point processes with values in certain function spaces. So, in Section 4, we first set up these two Poisson point processes from the given data for the generator and the boundary condition. In more complicated cases of the data given by variable coefficients, we start again with the same two Poisson point processes with values in function spaces. In this case, however, the processes (ξ.t// and .A.t// are no longer Levy´ processes, but are semimartingales and should be determined as unique solutions of stochastic differential equations (SDE’s) of the jump type based on these Poisson point processes. So far, a SDE of the jump type has usually been consid- ered only in the case when the SDE is based on a point process with values in a Euclidean space, as discussed, e.g., by Itoˆ [9] and Gihman and Skorohod [5]. In the present problem, we need and use essentially SDE’s based on Poisson point processes with values in function spaces. 2. Point processes and Poisson point processes Let .U; BU / be a measurable space. In this paper, we always assume that U is a standard Borel space in the sense of [19] and BU is the topological σ-field on U (equivalently, U is a Lusin space in the sense of [2] and BU is the totality of Borel subsets of U). By a point function on U, we mean a mapping p V .0; 1/ ⊃ Dp 3 t 7! p.t/ 2 U where the domain Dp of the mapping p is a countable subset of .0; 1/. p defines a counting measure N p.ds; du/ on .0; 1/ × U with σ-field B.0; 1/ ⊗ BU via X N p..0; tU × A/ D 1A.p.s//; t > 0; A 2 BU : (2.1) s2Dp;s≤t Let ΠU be the totality of point functions on U and B.ΠU / be the smallest σ-field on ΠU with respect to which the mappings ΠU 3 p 7! N p..0; tU × A/ 2 f0; 1;:::; 1g, for each t > 0 and A 2 BU , are all measurable. By a point process p, we mean a .ΠU ; B.ΠU //-valued random variable, i.e., a map p V Ω 3 ! ! p.!/ 2 ΠU , which is F=B.ΠU /-measurable, defined on a probability space .Ω; F; P/. A point process p is called σ-finite if there exist An 2 BU , S n D 1; 2;::: , such that An ⊂ AnC1, n An D U and N p..0; tU× An/ < 1 a.s. for all t > 0 and n. A general theory of point processes is developed in the framework of semimartingale theory (cf., e.g., [7,16,18]). In this paper, we treat mainly the notion of Poisson point processes. Definition 2.1. A point process p is called a stationary Poisson point process if the following holds: ( l ) ! ( l ) X p X −λk E exp − λk N p..s; tU × Ak/ jFs D exp −.t − s/ n.Ak/.1 − e / (2.2) kD1 kD1 for every t > s ≥ 0, λk > 0 and Ak 2 BU such that fAkg are mutually disjoint, where n is a positive measure on .U; BU / defined by n.A/ D EfN p..0; 1U × A/g; A 2 BU ; 656 S.
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